On Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 2:28:05 AM UTC-4, Alex Miller wrote:
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> On Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 1:15:23 AM UTC-5, Fluid Dynamics wrote:
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>> All of that is very interesting, but then, by your own arguments (pop 
>> (seq '(1 2 3))) should *not* work. 
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> From you prior post, I think you might be confused about what "seq" does 
> as it doesn't "wrap" anything - it just asks the input to return a 
> sequence. Different kinds of inputs have different ways of providing the 
> sequence.
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> In this case, '(1 2 3) is a list. Lists are collections. However, lists 
> are also sequences (whereas other collections produce a sequence view over 
> the collection), so (seq '(1 2 3)) just returns '(1 2 3). As mentioned, pop 
> is defined on lists.
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That misses the point that we have a core function that throws a 
ClassCastException when passed (seq x) and not when passed (seq y). 

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